We had a great time with the Selin's this year. It hasn't happened for a while, but all of my sister Carrie's kids were here in town. Sadly, because of the stomach flu passing through their family, we couldn't get together on our first choice day, but when we did get the chance to meet, Evan and Shanna and Calvin, had to take off back home. (sad face). And another sad thing - I forgot my camera. After playing some pretty good sand volleyball, (pictures would have been great) we headed to Carrie and Doug's home for the annual 'white elephant' exchange.
side note; Trudy, white elephant can be held any time during the year, so if you ever get a chance to vacation this way, let us know, we'll start hitting the thrift stores.
Here's the really sad part about not having my camera. There were some pretty spectacular gifts this year. The large white elephant wall hanging/table thing. (I swear it weighed 30lbs) (Carrie could you weigh that thing and send me the information with a picture of it!) We still don't know what it was, but I'm sure it will be left at Carrie's house and not taking the drive back to Utah with the owner, Lindsey. Also, the make it yourself wreath kit: the kitty cat statue thing that must have been made with real cat hair (scary): mom ended up with a novel called Viking that had Fabio as the front cover model, with a matching chest protector type thing that would make any of us look like Fabio's famed chest; a t-shirt with Evan and Shanna's makemebabies.com -baby to be- image: a mirror with darling attached colored pieces of glass; and one of our favorites, Richard Simmons 'video's and a sparkling outfit to match; and many more items. So, Selin's.....Thanks for having us over there and letting us leave a mess of papers, ugly gifts, oops, I mean, sweet, great gifts, and a mess in the kitchen. We had a great time. And if any of you happen to post any pictures especially of Allan in the Richard Simmons outfit, let me know and I will attach a post here.
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